This article is a strategy guide for Water God Dungeon.

This guide is meant for single clears and to enable idling with as low as possible requirements. Not to be the most effective method. Information on equipment, mechanics and strategies are on this page.

If you wish to tweak the Combat Simulator Exports yourself, they can be found here.

Why Clear Water God Dungeon?

There are a lot of reasons to clear this dungeon:

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Expanded Knowledge - unlocks an upgrade that greatly speeds up
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Runecrafting and
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Herblore.
Glacia God Armour - gives one of the strongest magic builds, and is required to idle
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Earth God Dungeon. Also, allows access to the Burning Madness Gloves.
Cloudburst Staff - one of the strongest magic DPS weapons in the game.
Warlock Amulet - reduces overall food expenditure.
Warlock Ring - provides a strong damage boost, and allows access to the Burning Madness Ring.
Glacia Godsword - can be upgraded into the Ultima Godsword.

Drop-rates from this dungeon¹:

Full Armour set: will need 91 clears for a 75% chance, or 192 clears for a 95% chance.
Cloudburst Staff: will need 277 clears for a 75% chance, and 576 clears for a 95% chance.

Notes:

Drop-rates were calculated using the drop-rate simulator.

Standard Guides

Start Gear

Due to the Combat Triangle, it is recommended to beat the Water God Dungeon with

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Ranged style, since enemies use

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Magic and

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Melee.

Prayers:
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Sharp Vision &
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Eagle Eye
Point of Interest: Bandit Hideout

Disclaimer: Gem slot is not required but recommended.

Slot	Item	DR%
	Aeris God Helmet	8%
	Aeris God Platebody	8%
	Aeris God Platelegs	8%
	Aeris God Boots	8%
	Aeris God Gloves	8%
	Infernal Cape	4%
	Elite Amulet of Ranged	1%
	Ring of Wealth	0%
	Accuracy Gem	0%
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	Scaled Shield	8%
	Emerald Bolts	0%
	Ranged Hinder Scroll	0%
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Total		53%

You can expect a clear time of 9 minutes with this setup.

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Agility and

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Astrology will greatly increase your clear speeds. Check your own setup with Can I Idle or Combat Simulator to see if you meet the

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HP requirements. If you're following this setup exactly, you'll need

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Level 86 to idle.

Ring of Wealth or Aorpheat's Signet Ring are preferred for the chance of double loot, but you can use Silver Diamond Ring for 1% DR if necessary.

If you have FEZ then use it, but it's not mandatory to have it.

Because later monsters in the dungeon are quite evasive,

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Ancient Crossbow boosts the clear time by a significant amount because it lowers the enemy's evasion until the end of the fight.

Scaled Shield is important because the poison damages in percentage, meaning that Glacia will suffer. A lot. With Scaled Shield, you will clear the dungeon at least 10% faster when compared to its unupgraded version, (U) Ancient D-hide Shield.

Use Emerald Bolts to save your Diamonds for Diamond Luck Potion IV.

Late-game Idle builds

The remainder of this guide assumes main game only, and does not consider any of the late-game armour and weapons that are available.

The rest of this guide is intended for use after 100+ clears using the build shown above. The goal of this section of the guide is to maximize scrolls and to help farm for any missing items. It is assumed that you are level 99 in all skills with access to all of the weapons and items in the main game, and access to all DR and HP pets. This assumes you are (unless otherwise noted) using a

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Agility setup optimized for combat, are using your best prayers, your best summoning synergy, and are using

Diamond Luck Potions.

Ranged

This build farms around 17 to 18 scrolls/hour, depending on your

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Astrology bonuses. The

Cape of Prat is marginally faster at clearing dungeons than the

Maximum Skillcape, but it will also doubles your ammo consumption.

Diamond Luck Potion IV
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Battleheart and
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Rigour
Jadestone Bolts (or better)
Bandit Hideout

Disclaimer: Gem slot is not required but recommended.

Slot	Item	DR%
	Slayer Cowl (Master)	6%
	Slayer Leather Body (Master)	6%
	Aeris God Platelegs	8%
	Aeris God Boots	8%
	Aeris God Gloves	8%
	Maximum Skillcape	0%
	Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs	3%
	Ring of Wealth	0%
	Agile Gem	0%
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	Shield of Ranged Power	9%
	Chapeau Noir	0%
	Ranged Hinder Scroll	0%
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Total		48%

Magic

This build uses

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Fire Surge,

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Anguish III, and

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Surge II. This build farms around 19 to 20 scrolls/hour, depending on your

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Astrology bonuses. To use this method, you need to have 1090 HP and 57% DR. This is achieved by using

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Rocky Waters instead of

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Lake Swim.

The overall time for this build is likely to take longer than setting up ranged because of how many runes you will need. This build relies on the Shield of Magic Power to survive, and also keep a high dps. Overall, it is less effective than the ranged counterpart, and might lower the number of scrolls/hour as a result.

Diamond Luck Potion IV
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Battleheart and
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Augury
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Fire Surge,
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Anguish III, and
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Surge II
The Academia Arcanum

Disclaimer: Gem slot is not required but recommended.

Slot	Item	DR%
	Glacia God Helmet	8%
	Glacia God Platebody	8%
	Glacia God Platelegs	8%
	Glacia God Boots	8%
	Glacia God Gloves	8%
	Skull Cape	3%
	Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs	3%
	Ring of Wealth	0%
	Agile Gem	0%
	Ocean Song	0%
	Shield of Magic Power	9%
	Chapeau Noir	0%
	Wizard's Scroll II	0%
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Total		55%

Ancient Relics Guides

On top of no Pets,

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Astrology or Potions this guide will also assume no Relics.

Much like any other dungeon up to now, Manual Eating will be required.

For this dungeon. Watch out for Glacias Frigid Wave attack. It hits 3 times for quite heavy damage.

Melee

Even though this is technically possible, it will require a whole lot of farming. To be able to do it with melee you will need

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Level 80 (or

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Level 70 and

Finn, the Cat) as well as farm enough

Food Box I from lower dungeons to obtain enough

Swordfish for

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Raft Building.

This dungeon will take roughly 30 minutes to clear with Melee and use approximately 1500 Lobster per clear.

In short, it is highly discouraged to use Melee to attempt

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Water God Dungeon.

Gear

Slot	Item
	(G) Rune Helmet
	(G) Rune Platebody
	(G) Rune Platelegs
	(G) Rune Boots
	Paladin Gloves
	Fire Cape
	Elite Amulet of Defence
	Silver Topaz Ring
	Ancient Claw
	(G) Rune Shield
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Agility

Slot	Obstacle	Bonuses
1	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Cargo Net	+3% Global GP (except Item Sales) +2% Fishing Mastery XP
2	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Rope Jump	+3% Smithing Mastery XP
3	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Pipe Climb	+5% Melee Evasion +5% Melee Max Hit
4	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Gap Jump	+3% Runecrafting Mastery XP
5	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Cliff Balance	+20 Maximum Hitpoints +5% Ranged Accuracy Rating +2 Prayer Point Cost for Prayers +5% Magic Accuracy Rating +5% Melee Accuracy Rating
6	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Rocky Waters	+50 Maximum Hitpoints
7	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Boulder Trap	-20% Chance to Preserve Resources in Skills
8	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Raft Building	+20 Maximum Hitpoints +2% Damage To All Monsters +1% Damage Reduction
9	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Ice Jump	+20 Maximum Hitpoints +5% Food Healing Value +5% Chance to Double Items Globally +10 Mining Node HP +10% Chance to Preserve Resources in Skills

Ranged

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Ranged is highly recommended as it takes the most advantage of the Combat Triangle.

The minimum recommended set is (U) Red D-hide Equipment. (U) Black D-hide Equipment uses around 70 less Lobster per clear. The clear time for this Dungeon is about 20 minutes and will use roughly 630-700 Lobster.

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Ancient Crossbow shortens this clear time by roughly 4 minutes.

The Ice Armour can be swapped for Adamant Armour or Rune Armour with little to no impact on the clear speed. It will slightly lower the Food used.

Red D-hide Equipment and Black D-hide Equipment can be obtained from

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Spider Forest.

Dragon Crossbow can be obtained from

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Thieving target

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Marauder requiring

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Level 21.

Prayers:
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Eagle Eye &
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Sharp Vision

Slot	Item
	Ice Helmet
	(U) Red D-hide Body
	(U) Red D-hide Chaps
	Ice Boots
	(U) Red D-hide Vambraces
	Fire Cape
	Elite Amulet of Ranged
	Silver Diamond Ring
	Accuracy Gem
	Dragon Crossbow
	Ice Shield
	Ruby Bolts
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Magic

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Magic is also highly discouraged as a clear would take about 40 minutes and use roughly 1400

Lobster.

This will require the
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Level 85 Skill cap to be unlocked.

Spell:
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Earth Surge
Curse:
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Anguish III
Aurora:
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Fury II (Optional)
Prayers:
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Mystic Lore &
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Mystic Might

Slot	Item
	Earth Expert Wizard Hat
	Earth Expert Wizard Robes
	Earth Expert Wizard Bottoms
	Earth Expert Wizard Boots
	Paladin Gloves
	Fire Cape
	Elite Amulet of Magic
	Silver Diamond Ring
	Accuracy Gem
	Magic Wand (Powerful)
	(G) Adamant Shield
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Idle 2nd Stage Guide

It is assumed the explanation in The Air God Dungeon Guide has been read.

Gear

This setup has an estimate clear rate of 5 Dungeons per hour. It will also use roughly 720 Lobster per hour.

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Ancient Crossbow increases the clears per hour by roughly 0.5
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Centaur
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Dragon increases the clears per hour by roughly 1

Prayers:
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Eagle Eye &
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Sharp Vision
Point of Interest: Bandit Hideout

Slot	Item
	Aeris God Helmet
	Aeris God Platebody
	Aeris God Platelegs
	Aeris God Boots
	Aeris God Gloves
	Fire Cape
	Elite Amulet of Ranged
	Silver Diamond Ring
	Accuracy Gem
	Dragon Crossbow
	Scaled Shield
	Ruby Bolts
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Agility

Slot	Obstacle	Bonuses
1	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Cargo Net	+3% Global GP (except Item Sales) +2% Fishing Mastery XP
2	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Rope Jump	+3% Smithing Mastery XP
3	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Pipe Climb	+5% Melee Evasion +5% Melee Max Hit
4	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Gap Jump	+3% Runecrafting Mastery XP
5	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Cliff Balance	+20 Maximum Hitpoints +5% Ranged Accuracy Rating +2 Prayer Point Cost for Prayers +5% Magic Accuracy Rating +5% Melee Accuracy Rating
6	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Rocky Waters	+50 Maximum Hitpoints

Water God Dungeon/Guide

Contents

Why Clear Water God Dungeon?

Standard Guides

Start Gear

Late-game Idle builds

Ranged

Magic

Ancient Relics Guides

Melee

Gear

Agility

Ranged

Magic

Idle 2nd Stage Guide

Gear

Agility